SME Times News Bureau | 24 Jul, 2015
Information Technology (IT) sector is expected to log six percent growth
in its hiring rate, Nasscom president R.Chandrashekhar said on
Thursday.
The current employee strength in the sector is around 3.5 million, he said.
Speaking
at the Nasscom HR Summit in Chennai, Chandrashekar said the IT industry is
moving towards digital era and India is considered as a leader in this
field when it comes to talent availability.
According to him, it is the human resource that runs companies and not machines.
He said what is important is how the workforce is managed as it is they who make a difference for an enterprise.
According
to hi,m 75 percent of the workforce in ten years time would comprise of
people who entered the job market post 2000 or born post 1980.
Chandrashekar
said the challenges before HR managers is to build leadership pool out
of new recruits and also engaging with those employees who have been
around for some time.
